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of Glasgow, where he was born on the 29th of May, 1773. In September, 1790, being then in his 18th year, he removed to Manchester, where his elder brother was settled as an engraver to calico printers, with whom he served an apprenticeship to that business. Some time afterwards his brother relinquished engraving in favour of the late Mr. Lockett, and commenced as a calico printer; our deceased friend being admitted a partner in the concern.

Infidelity was common among the young men of his time, and the subject of this notice became imbued with the pernicious principles of the day. But about the time of his marriage, which was into a New Church family, the writings of our enlightened author were introduced to his notice, and, under the further influence of the Rev. Mr. Clowes, his former doubts and difficulties were removed, and he became a thorough convert to the New Church. In after life, when he would speak of this period, he always seemed deeply moved with gratitude to the Divine Providence of the Lord for having rescued him from the dangers of his previous scepticism. He became a regular attender on the ministrations of Mr. Jones, at Peter street (of which church, to the time of his death, he was a trustee), and continued a worthy member of that society until his return to Scotland.

His wife died in 1833, leaving him no family; and finding himself possessed of a moderate competency, he, the following year, wound up his affairs in Manchester and returned to Scotland, to spend the closing years of his life in his native place. He immediately joined the Glasgow society (the same year that the Rev. D. G. Goyder became its minister), and for twenty-one years his influence was always prominent for good, and contributed in no slight degree to the prosperity that has all along followed that society. Till prevented by the infirmities of years, he never was absent from the church service or the social and other meetings of the society; and he was particularly noted for being an early attender; no meeting was ever disturbed by his coming in late.

His benevolence was very marked. He seemed, indeed, to have a perpetual delight in giving; yet his kindness was neither indiscriminate nor misplaced. He made it his aim to spread his bounties

over a large field, rather than to give great sums to particular objects. His endeavour was to assist people in helping themselves, rather than to do everything for them; consequently his charities were greater in number than large in amount; and now that he is gone many will miss his open and liberal hand.

He was exceedingly regular and methodical in his habits, and punctual in the fulfilment of every duty and engagement. He was fond of reading, particularly the Word and the writings of Swedenborg. He made it his practice to read a portion of each of these daily. The work on Heaven and Hell he had read through ten times. He had an excellent constitution, and enjoyed during the whole course of his long life the very best health. It was only during the last two years that increasing frailty compelled him to absent himself from the services of the church and confine himself to his room; yet, even during that period, with the exception of an occasional fit of spasmodic asthma, he enjoyed good health considering his advanced years. His mild and happy disposition never failed, and he enjoyed the utmost calmness and contentment up to the very last. When asked if he did not weary being so long confined to his room without relative or friend to associate with and take care of him, he seemed surprised at such a question being put to him, who had so many inward sources of enjoyment. A friend calling on him just before his removal, found him at the very extreme of bodily life, but vigorous and clear in mental activity. He was barely able to articulate-"I am just wearing away to the other and better world." His friend said-" Well, Mr. Russell, I hope we shall meet there and continue the friendship we have so much enjoyed here below." "Yes, yes," he replied, "never fear; we shall meet there, as sure as sure," and took farewell. A few days after he quietly breathed his last, without apparent pain, having been out of bed a few hours previously and partaken of his usual repast at the regular time.

The great bulk of his property he has bequeathed to his numerous relatives, none of whom are forgotten. To about twenty members of the Glasgow society, his more immediate friends, he leaves legacies, some of £5. and some of £10. each, in token of remembrance. To

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Dr. Tafel and Rev. D. G. Goyder he
leaves £10. each; the Societies of Edin-
burgh, Paisley, and Alloa, £50. each;
to his trustees he gives £100. for the
benefit of such institutions of the church
in London as they shall select, and £100.
in the same way for Manchester and
Salford, equally; the Glasgow society is
to have £300., and an additional £100.
to found an annual social meeting or
soirée in connection with the church.
In addition to these he makes several
bequests to the public charities of
Glasgow.

The good old man has now gone to

reap the fruits of a life of usefulness
and virtue, and it shall be well with
those who are enabled to ultimate a
similar amount of rectitude, punctuality,
benevolence, and humble trust in the
Lord's merciful Providence. He lived
in pious thankfulness to the Lord for
everything, and left the world in the
same humble reliance on his mercy.

He requested that the following lines
should be engraved on his tombstone :--
"Reader! with regard to the body,
As I am thou soon wilt be.
Prepare l

He builds too low who builds below the skies."
Glasgow, Nov. 16, 1855. A. B.

INDEX.

ESSAYS, &c. &c.

Address to the Sunday School Union of Genesis, Summary of the Spiritual
the New Church, 337

Advancement of the New Church, on
the, 306

Ages, Geological, 294

Alleged Errors in the Writings of Swe-
denborg. The Establishment of the
New Church, 555

Bless and Blessing, Scriptural Use of
the Words, 220

Candidates for the Ministry and their
Adequate Support, 496

Causes of Health; or Real Sanitary
Measures, 203

China, Revolution in, 259

Church, New, Establishment of, 555
Concerning Illustration through the
Word, 180

Correspondence of Diseases, 17
Correspondences of Food, Hunger, and
Thirst, 97

Death and its Causes, Remarks on, 74
Degrees, Discrete and Continuous, 488,
538

Diseases, Correspondence of, 17
Diversity in the Duration of Life, on
the, 297, 350, 398, 452

Divine Love the only Source of Attrac-
tion, 241

Edward Paxton Hood and Swedenbor-
gianism, 419

Emanuel Swedenborg and Tait's Maga.
zine, 502

First and Greatest object of the Chris-
tian, 289

Formations of the Earth, Theories of,
61, 123

Sense of, 25, 76, 130, 172, 217, 304,
359, 412

Geological Ages, 294

God's Covenants with Men, 481
Heavenly Marriage, or the Process of
Regeneration, 316

Incarnation, True Idea of, 1
Internal and External Man, 408
Knowledge Spiritual, the Necessity of
Cultivating, 10

Letters to the Young People of both
Sexes in the New Church, 227, 311,
362

Life is Judgment, Psalm xc. 12, 105
Linnæus and Swedenborg, 394
Lord, Reasons why He was born upon
this Earth, 433

Love Divine the only Source of Attrac-
tion, 241

Manifestations of the Carnal Mind, 529
Marriage and its Laws, 368
Marriage, its Origin, its Nature, and
its Laws, 265

Motion the Universal Sign of Life, 166,
208

Necessity of cultivating Spiritual Know-
ledge, 10

On the Chain of Being, in connection
with the Laws of Discrete Degrees
and Continuous Degrees, 538
Opening of the Word, 415
Philosophy, Speculative, and Sweden-
borg, 49, 57

Plurality of Worlds, and the Reasons
why the Lord, for the purpose of Uni-
versal Redemption, was born upon
this Earth, 433

Prefiguration of Nature; or, Illustra-

tions of Discrete Degrees, 488
Purgatory a Fiction of Priestcraft and

the Perversion of a Great Truth, 156
Religion in a Life of Uses the only Way
of Salvation 385

Remarks on Death and its Causes, 74
Review Astrotheology. By Edward
Higginson, 319

Reviewers Reviewed-The "Quarterly
Journal of Prophecy" and Sweden-
borg, 324

Revolution in China, 259
Salvation the only Way, 385
Scriptural Use of the words Bless,
Blessing, &c, 220

Spiritual Interpretation of Scripture re-
quisite to a right Understanding of
its Literal Sense, 344

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Swedenborg and Speculative or Meta.
physical Philosophy, 49
Swedenborg, in Tenneman's Manual of
the History of Philosophy, 57
Term " Visionary"-A Dialogue, 29
Testimonies from Ancient Philosophers
to the Doctrines and Philosophy of
the New Church, 193, 247
Theologica Germanica, 69
Theories of the Formation of the Earth,
and the Development of Living Forms,
61, 123

Thoughts in Connection with the Oper-
ation of the Will, 78

True Idea of the Incarnation the
Foundation of Christianity, 1

True Idea of God the First Principle of
all True Theology and Philosophy,
547

Urbana University; Language and Phi-
losophy, 390

Virgin Mary, and the Humanity as-
sumed from her by the Lord, 115
Wants of Humanity; or, the New
Church, 443

World of Spirits; or, the Intermediate
World between Heaven and Hell, 145

REVIEWS. •

Aged Minister's Last Legacy to the New
Church, signified by the New Jeru-
salem in the Apocalypse. By the
Rev. J. Proud, 80
Astrotheology, 319

Documents concerning the Life and
Character of Emanuel Swedenborg,
369

Hiller's Practical Sermons, 563
Modern Mysteries Explained and Ex-
posed, 459, 506
Postdiluvian History, 519
Practical Guide to the English Kinder
Garten (Children's Garden) for the
Use of Mothers, Nurses, and Infant
Teachers, 371

MISCELLANEOUS.

Accrington-Presentation to the Rev. Chetham Library, Manchester-Pre-

Dr. Bayley, 375, 471

America, 40

American Magazines, 233

American Swedenborg Printing and
Publishing Society, 327

Appeal on Behalf of the London Mis-
sionary and Tract Society, 90
Appeal of the Nottingham Society to
the Members of the New Church, 524
Australia, 184

Biographical Magazine, 380
Birmingham New Jerusalem
Bible Society, 284
Brightlingsea, 285, 477
Brighton, 237

sentation of Books by the Manchester
Printing Society, 239

Coming of the Lord and Emanuel Swe-
denborg, 277

Consecration of Salem Chapel, Chat-
ham, 475

Consummated Church, 570

Corrections in the Translations of Swe-
denborg, 381, 429

Crisis (The) Devoted to the Inner Life
of the New Church, 233
Church Dangers of Spiritual Manifestations,

381
Death and its Causes, 287
Dying Atheist, 186

Editor's Page-Items of Itelligence
from India-Mahomedans receiving
the Doctrines of the New Church,
33, 231, 277
Eighteenth Annual Meeting of the
Manchester Tract Society, 426
Extracts from Swedenborg-External
Beauty-Heavenly Happiness Active,

239

First Annual Report of the Glasgow
New Church Association, 235
Forty-eighth General Conference of the
New Church, 383, 422
Germany-Dr. Tafel, 35

Granger Subscription, 188, 288, 431
Halifax, 92

Hints to the Committee of the London
Tract Society, 185
Important Correction in the Transla-
tions of Swedenborg, 232
Inquiry respecting John xvi. 23, 234
Inquiries from Trinidad, 525

Mr. Woodman's Recent Lectures at St.
Ives, 141

New Churchman, 233
New Christian Church, Limekiln Lane,
Liverpool, 88

New Church Newspapers, 379
New Church Schoolmasters, 430
New Church College, Islington, 571
New Dogma of the Romish Church res-
pecting the Immaculate Conception
of the Virgin Mary, 233
New Jerusalem Messenger, 430
New Jerusalem Church, Bristol, 568
New Publications, 45, 142, 189, 239
New Translation of Isaiah, 382, 431
Newcastle-upon Tyne, 87
Noble's Appeal-Monumental Edition,

187

"Noble" Monument, 188, 478

Noble's (The late Rev. S.) Sermons, 525
Parable of the Leaven, &c., Matt. xiii.
33, 186

Items of Information-Oxford, 478; Petitions from India that the Govern-
Islington, 479

Kersley-Opening of an Organ, 238
Lectures at Boston, Lincolnshire, by the
Rev. J. H. Smithson, 42
Lecture at Ipswich, 476
Lectures at Sheffield, 182

Lectures at Southport, by the Revs. J. H.
Smithson and D. Howarth, 377
Liberty as Advocated in the New
Church, 479, 523

Life in the Bones, 526
Limekiln Lane, Liverpool, 189
Liverpool, 139, 143

London, Argyle-square Church, 94
London New Jerusalem Church Free
School Society, 39

Lord, (The) the only Source of Good,
429

Magazine, the, and the Increase of its
Sale, 39, 141, 239
Malta, 37

Manuscript Sermons of the late Rev. S.
Noble, 383, 428
Meaning of Acts i. 11, 45
"Millennial Harbinger" and Sweden-
borg, 329

Missionary Visit to Ramsey, Chatteris,
and St. Ives, Hunts, by the Rev. W.
Woodman, 89

Missionary and Tract Society, London,
569

Monthly Christian Spectator and E.
Swedenborg, 279

Monuments to the Departed, 237
"Monumental Edition of the Appeal,"
44, 93, 140, 187, 231, 286, 332, 334,
382, 477

ment may abolish Polygamy, 232
Planet Jupiter, 427

Presentation by the Swedenborg Print-
ing Society to the New Church at
Boston, 142

Primitive Christians, 239
Professor Bush and the New Church
Repository, 138

Proposal for a Hymn Book with Musical
Notes, 529

Proposals to Publish a New Translation

of the Prophet Isaiah, illustrated as
to the Spiritual Sense, with copious
Extracts from Swedenborg, 281
Questions on the Four Leading Doc-
trines, 288

Report of the Committee on the Appro-
priation of the Funds at the disposal
of the General Conference for Edu-
cational Purposes, 38

Report of the Lincolnshire New Church
Association, 88

Report of the Committee of the Swe-
denborg Society, 431

Reprint of the "Monumental Edition
of the Appeal," 370

Resolutions of Conference recommend-
ing the Members of the Church to
pay especial regard to the Lord's
Supper, 288
Salford, 283

Spirit Manifestations, 521

Strictures on certain Remarks in the
Editor's Page, 140

Subscriptions received on behalf of Mr.
Granger, 137

Suggestions to the Tract Society, 44

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OBITUARY.

Jackson, Mrs. Alice, 48
Judd, Mr. James, 288
Kenyon, Mrs., 384
Macara, Mr. James, 144
Neville, Mrs. Alice, 384
Noble, Mrs. Susannah, 480
Palmer, Mr. Henry, 288
Russell, Mr., 571

Rose, Mr. Thomas. 189
Salter, Mrs. Louisa, 96
Seddon, Mr. Richard, 432
Selby, Mr. John, 528
Spofford, Mr. James, 526
Stones, Betsy, 240
Taylor, Mr. James, 95
Thompson, Miss Mary, 432
Wade, Mrs. Elizabeth, 190
West, Mr. James, 383

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